Nanny Cam Lawsuit: Time-Lapsed Images Make Play Look Like Violence

[LiberalHeart]

FORT LAUDERDALE (AP) -- A nanny who was arrested after police viewed hidden camera recordings that appeared to show her shaking a 5-month-old baby filed a lawsuit against the device's manufacturer. Claudia Muro, 32, alleged that the camera footage, which was broadcast on television around the country, was distorted and wrongfully led to her arrest in October 2003.

(Hmmm...Looks like experts agree with her. What say you?)

More:
http://wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=5031434

[Atman]

1. Isn't this really a job for the expertise of Bill Frist?

I mean...it DOES involve solving a case by looking at video.

[MADem]

2. We can put a frigging human being on the MOON

...but for the life of me I cannot fathom why in this day and age, we still do that shitty, one frame a second, time-lapsed video in surveillance. How many times have we seen the crappy shots of some clown robbing a bank, or holding up a convenience store??? How tough is it to have SMOOTH, real motion video????

If that woman was innocent, she's probably totally bummed, and turned off from doing anything in the child care industry.

[Phx_Dem]

4. Real time video is expensive

not to mention that you have to be able to archive all of it.

edit: it does not have to be the frame per second you mentioned, most recorders have a range of times you can select.

[MADem]

5. But really, DOES one have to archive it???

Say I have Mary Poppins in to mind the kids. The video runs, you scroll through it in the evening, and then you record over it if there's no issues. If there are, ya pop out the tape or disk and stick a fresh one in there (and then fire the nanny). I mean, hell, we TIVO everything, it doesn't stay in the machine forever....why can't they come up with a system like that for parents? I know the convenience stores record over their tapes periodically, and don't keep them forever...it just seems like there's GOTTA be a better way.

[Phx_Dem]

6. Your right--I was thinking more on the retail end of things

generally one uses a tape per day, so you keep a library of 31 tapes, every day you tape over the last months day. For home use sure you could use like 3-4 tapes and rotate them. Maybe TIVO should look into being able to hook up a camera to the unit.

[Phx_Dem]

3. she spend two years in jail

while charges were pending? WTF? Sounds like she has a very good case.

[LiberalHeart]

7. Moderator mystery

I posted this in breaking news. I could half-way see why it'd be moved to general discussion, but why to Florida? An Ohio TV station thought it was worth posting on their site, even though the story is out of Florida. It's the size of the issue, obviously, that so moved them. Seems like this would be news to anyone anywhere who's a nanny, or anyone anywhere who is interested in what looks like a great injustice, or anyone anywhere who relies on these cams.